Kill all USer Sessions before starting to restore a Database
If you have a requirement to Kill all USer Sessions before starting to restore a Database, you may use this script
2015-08-05 (first published: 2015-07-08)
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2015-08-04 (first published: 2015-07-08)
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2015-08-03 (first published: 2015-07-12)
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2015-07-31 (first published: 2015-07-12)
1,454 reads
List Job Dependencies
A Stored Procedure that lists all Jobs that target a database and the job dependencies
2015-07-29 (first published: 2015-07-02)
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Function to convert UserAccountControl number to details text
Function that converts AD UserAccountControl number to details text
2015-07-27 (first published: 2013-05-14)
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DB Integrity & Backup Report
This script returns the date for the most recent log/full backups and checks if a DBCC CHECKDB has ran within a week.
2015-07-23 (first published: 2015-06-23)
1,322 reads
Setup Alerts for SQL Replication
If you want to monitor few specific alerts for SQL Replication (Merge and Transnational), you can may consider adding these 14 alerts.
2015-07-21 (first published: 2015-06-16)
1,491 reads
Monitor SQL Server and Service
To monitor SQL service and the host server is up and running, if down send e-mail to DBA
2015-07-16 (first published: 2015-06-15)
2,125 reads
Recent Restore History
This script simply returns the most recent restore information about databases for a server.
Returns the destination database name, the device used to perform the restore and the restore date.
2015-07-15 (first published: 2015-06-10)
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Symmetric Key Encryption
If I run this statement in SQL Server 2025, how is the password encrypted?
CREATE SYMMETRIC KEY MySymmetricKey WITH ALGORITHM = AES_256, KEY_SOURCE = 'My secret key source passphrase', IDENTITY_VALUE = 'My secret identity value' ENCRYPTION BY PASSWORD = 'S&perS#cretP@ssword7'; GOSee possible answers